DESIGNING MINDFULNESS CONVERSATIONAL AGENTS FOR PEOPLE WITH EARLY-STAGE DEMENTIA AND THEIR CAREGIVERS: THEMATIC ANALYSIS OF EXPERT AND USER PERSPECTIVES

BackgroundThe number of people with dementia is expected to grow worldwide.Among the ways to support both persons with early-stage dementia and their caregivers (dyads), researchers are studying mindfulness interventions.However, few studies have explored technology-enhanced mindfulness interventions for dyads and the needs of persons with dementia

Adr1 and Cat8 co-regulate numerous glucose-repressed genes in S.cerevisiae, presenting a unique opportunity to explore their individual roles in coactivator recruitment, chromatin remodeling, and transcription.We determined the individual contributions of Cat8 and Adr1 on the expression of a cohort of glucose-repressed genes and found three broad c

Ant colony optimization (ACO) is proposed on the study of the foraging behavior of ants Wallets on the basis of the proposed and widely used in the optimization.However, it has some shortcoming such as longer time, hardly implement and local optimal etc.For overcoming the above shortcoming, combined with the characteristic of Levy flight, based on

ObjectivesTriclosan is an antibacterial agent suspected to disrupt the endocrine system.The aim of this study was to investigate the influence of triclosan on the human thyroid system through a systematic literature review of human studies.MethodsEligibility criteria and method of analysis were registered at Prospero (registration number: CRD420191